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superficiality

[ UK /sˌuːpəfˌɪʃɪˈælɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
  2. shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something
    he ignored the wound because of its superficiality

How To Use superficiality In A Sentence

  • In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
  • But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
  • Despite the great quality of its prose, the story itself rings with superficiality, a certain lack of true profundity that can be covered but not overcome.
  • The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism, and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
  • Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
  • When it was first shown, their work seemed to represent a new low in superficiality and attitudinizing.
  • It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality.
  • The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers. The 20 Best Progressive Novels
  • Unfortunately, the effect - which heightens the superficiality of the film - distances viewers from the action as opposed to pulling them into it.
  • (Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.) Archive 2009-11-01
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